New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-28
1TNWISE MR.. CHAMBERLAIN.
his ATTACK ON THE IRISH in AMERICA
BLUND. r.
Mr.. BLUNT's sTNTENCE-THE ALLt'hp DiNA"ii"
p1or-CoILAPsE OF SOCIALIST AGITATION
MIR. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN
LONDON OPERA BoUFFE
lBY CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE.l


MR. FORD-HOPE-COQCELlN IN
LONDON OPERA BOUFfE.
fay CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE
ron,riont, 1887: By The Ne,p- York Tribune
roypoy Oct. 27.-Mr. Chamberans latest
.eferenoe TO the Irish in America has annoyed
some of his own friends who think what he SAID
true but indiscrcet. Others justify him on the
curions ground that the Irish cannot dislike INN
more bitterly than they did before. SO Stanch
IJnionist journal AS The St Jamcs's Gazette"
demonstrates against his creating fresh difhculues
for himself and his country. New-iOrk kilograms
alleging that the Irish have resolved to make his
mission "a failure regardless OF its merits or the
settlement of the Fisheries question, are readily
credited here, What Mr.. Chamberlain said III
the same speech respecting Canada is perverted
bv his English enemies into threat to exiet Vhe
Canadians from the Empire if they adjust their
tariff to suit themselves. The author OF THIS
ingenious travesty of Mr.. Chamberlain's language
IS The Pail Mall Gazette" whose animosity 10
the Radical leader amounts to mania.
That Journal further says that ar, Ch"l' 'oeriaih
-was no sooner appointed than he caused TO be
transmitted to the American press through Mr'
Smalley. that facile instrument of political in
eptitude, a declaration that he ahd acceIted uhe
post in order to do what he could TO establish
peoples" Hence Canada is TO be sacrinceo' Inns In
statements is at variance with the facts 1he
narapbrase of what said is incXact. The assertion
that Mr. Chamberlain caused it TO he transmitted
is not true. | should no more notice this than
other recent and equally reckless references to
me in the same journal if it concerned me only.
| contradict it because it misreprcsents Mr..
Chamberlain. and because it is calculated TO do
mischief in America, where the habitual prefer
ence of "1he Pail Mall Gazette" for fable over
fact may not he generally understood.
Mr. Wilfred Blunt's sentence TO two months
IMPRISONMENT is the most important Irish incident
of the week. This must raise and settle one way
or the other the question whether the English
are at liberty to carry on agitation in Ireland
when Irish agitation is suppressed. Speeches and
demonstrations in England AMI Scotiand' though in
themselves weighty. like Lord Spcncers and Mr..
Moreys. become of secondary interest in tile
presence of this new issue.
The police take very serious view of the
facts brought out the Cohen inquest. BY no
means all the facts were brought out, only
enough TO put the public to certain extent on
its guard Rightly wrongly. the chiefs of the
detective force believe dynamite outrages are i'm
ninent and precautions are now taken on q great
scale Public buildings are watched with no less
care than during the last dynamite cam, aign
Assassination. they say, to accompany cX
plosion Mr. Balfour, now hated by the Irish as
every Chief Secretary hut Mr.. Morley was hated
was to have been the first victim. 1t was sup
posed that the attempt would be made when he
speaks next week at Birmingham. Mr. Baliour,
however. is not only hated, but feared and
great public meeting is about the last place
where murder could be attempted and the
murderer get safely away.
A letter in to-day's Times" explains the secret
Of the continuance of the demonstrations of the
so called unemployed. This corresl ondents boot
maker told ham that he could get no boots finished
because al his men were parading the street..
There are other secrets ali more or less CiHn.
The distress though great can harll, be called
an exception The East End is not much nearer
starving this tlan i, is every winter. but work
has Iethaps, failed earlier. Socialist harangucs
are responsible for much of what disorder there
has been. The Socialist custom now is TO hold
small meetings in the East End often. They talk
to small knots of worKmcn and excite and lnhame
dis content among those comparatively well OH
for work. The existing disturbances began this
way: then roughs lOned in. The roughs have
row d-aprnared from the streets, convinced that
the police TOO many fer them. The genuine
wOfingman is disappearing, too, convinced 1or
his part that help is not TO be had by making
a nuisance OF himself. The police have from the
beginning had entire control of all these pro-
cccdings Sir Charles Warren has changed his
tactics as the enemy changed theirs. lie first
PREVENTED the meetings and professions, then
allowed them. took charge Of them, and made
them ridiculous. London looks daily while a
few hundred of rather well dressed and quite
we'll behaved men march about the West End
under police escort. There is panic riot,
ard hardly any Interference with ordinary traffic.
Mr. Bcresford-IIopc, who was buried yesterday,
was no friend TO America. lie must be supposed
20 have approved. if not ms ircd, the pertnacious
cnmity of The Saturday Review" enmity which
continues TO this day. But he was in all private
re atons Of life of the most amiabe Of
men With many public virtues, where prejudice
did not stand in the way, lie belonged to gen
Grafton of which he was one of the last survivors,
with great traditions, great integrity, and great
gifts-all OF kind not likely to flourish much
in the future politics Of this country.
NJ Coquelin's London season. which bcgrn on
Mon ay. hes orcnod with rather less success than
might have been expected. lie or his manager,
NJ Mayer, chose to bring out two pieces, both new
20 London, one Goudincts "Un Par, which
had faiied in Paris: the other Dilairs Lain"
winch has been played few times in the French
provinces but never got footing on the Partisan
stage Neither is liked here. and NJ Coquclin's
acting is thought TO lose something wien seen
apart from the surroundings IF the Theatre
Franchise. His audiences. however are good, the |
Royalty setting the fashion Of assiduous attend !
snce anything French The Prince
,f Wales the Duke of Cambridge and the Duchess
Of Connaught were present the first night
Another attempt was made last night 10 re- |
establish opera bouffe the London stage,
where its popularity has declined almost TO zero |
The Old Guard" music by Planquette and |
English by Earnio ,raS rro1lncc at tho A,nnro |